Thursday, July 01, 2010

The kids and I are just back from a two-week jaunt to Philadelphia while Debbie was in South Korea on a business trip. We gad a great time seeing lots of family and friends, but we're glad to be home and all back together again.

I have pics to upload and updates to share - but, the most pressing thing for us right now is to find a new place to live by August 1st. The lease is up on the current rental home we're in and it's proving much harder to find a new home than we imagined it would. There are a few possibilities out there - and one that we are really, really wanting. Hoping this is all settled and done with by next week so we can get to the business of packing and purging and gradually moving into our new diggs.

In the meantime - we're play dating, gardening, bug collecting, water ice-eating and hanging out.

Luca is in "camp" this week - and next - at the Montessori school he attends. I also just signed him up for a week of soccer camp for the second week of August. His first organized sport! If he likes it, we'll enroll him for the coming school year.

Matteo is almost eighteen months old. Hard to believe. As my mother would say, he's being a real "pip" right now. Usually jolly and compliant - he's suddenly turned into a shrieking, food-throwing, cookie-demanding naysayer. I'm hoping the phase passes quickly...

Good luck finding a new place. I hope the search is not too stressful.

18 months-2 years was a really fun time with both my kids because that's when they really started talking, not just single words any more, and you could find out what they were thinking. I hope that makes up for any misbehavior.

I noticed your comments (from back on May!) on my older blog entries. Sorry to take so long getting back to you.

Noah never did OT. He had been diagnosed with a borderline case of SPD and we were all set to start and then about two weeks after his kindergarten school year (with a teacher who was a terrible mismatch for him) his behavior dramatically improved. His issues are always there and he has flare-ups but it's never been like it was in kindergarten again. That summer we got him a bouncy castle (there's a picture in one of the July 2007 entries) and when it finally broke we replaced it with a mini-trampoline. I think for us the main benefit of the diagnosis was to help us understand him better. If he hadn't had a very mild case, we would have gone ahead with the OT.